By Scott Kanowsky
Investing.com -- The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits after being laid off unexpectedly decreased last week, in a sign of resilient tightness in the U.S. labor market.
Initial jobless claims dipped to 194,000 people in the week ending on February 11, according to Labor Department data on Thursday, inching lower from a downwardly revised figure of 195,000 in the prior week. Economists had predicted that the reading would climb to 200,000.